A Mount Sinai doctor forged letters from Jackson staff to get a fellowship, state says
When applying for a Jackson Memorial Hospital fellowship, a doctor working at Miami Beach’s Mount Sinai Medical Center provided forged letters of recommendation from Jackson staff members, the Florida Department of Health said.
That’s in the administrative complaint the department filed in May against Dr. Samer Obid’s license. The complaint starts the sometimes ponderous disciplinary process.
An email from the Miami Herald to the address on Obid’s online Department of Health license profile wasn’t returned.
Obid got his license in April 2019, his online license profile says. According to the complaint, he did his residency in internal medicine at the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital in 2019, then took a position as a hospitalist at Mount Sinai in Miami Beach.
Last June 23 or 24, Obid tried to get placed in Jackson’s Gastroenterology Fellowship program. In the process, the complaint says, he created fake Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) accounts for Jackson faculty and submitted the forged letters from those accounts to the AAMC’s Electronic Residency Application System.
